Posted originally on the conservative tree hose on October 28, 2021 | Sundance | 202 Comments
When I first saw the headline about Joe Biden paying illegal aliens $450,000 per person in reparations, I thought it was a joke. So I contacted a friend who works for DHS in Washington DC to check. I just received independent confirmation this story is entirely legit.
The Justice Department, Health and Human Services and Dept of Homeland Security are in negotiations with representatives from the ACLU and lawyers representing illegal aliens to pay out $1,000,000 per family for the hardship they endured in crossing the border illegally in 2017 and 2018. Approximately 1,000 families will each receive a million dollars giving the total settlement a taxpayer cost of around $1 billion or more.
WASHINGTON—The Biden administration is in talks to offer immigrant families that were separated during the Trump administration around $450,000 a person in compensation, according to people familiar with the matter, as several agencies work to resolve lawsuits filed on behalf of parents and children who say the government subjected them to lasting psychological trauma.
The U.S. Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services are considering payments that could amount to close to $1 million a family, though the final numbers could shift, the people familiar with the matter said. Most of the families that crossed the border illegally from Mexico to seek asylum in the U.S. included one parent and one child, the people said. Many families would likely get smaller payouts, depending on their circumstances, the people said.
The American Civil Liberties Union, which represents families in one of the lawsuits, has identified about 5,500 children separated at the border over the course of the Trump administration, citing figures provided to it by the government. The number of families eligible under the potential settlement is expected to be smaller, the people said, as government officials aren’t sure how many will come forward. Around 940 claims have so far been filed by the families, the people said.
The total potential payout could be $1 billion or more. (read more, paywall)
Not everyone in DHS or DOJ agrees with this massive payout to illegal aliens. However, the pressure from within the system to pay off those who were impacted by separation in the 2018 border security program is likely to end up being successful.
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on October 28, 2021 | Sundance | 555 Comments
As the impacts of the various vaccination mandates take shape, it is worth a review of the current status as it impacts you and your family on a local basis.
As noted by a reader in Washington state, the cleaving of society on vaccinated status is having an unusual impact on many regions even within individual states.
As one anecdotal report is told, the eastern side of Washington state is essentially functioning as before the vaccination mandate; while the western side is seeing a substantial breakdown in local civic society.
Mandates by local officials are creating issues for local services. Local police, fire and first responders are leaving their jobs, creating issues for those in the leftist side of Washington state. Meanwhile the eastern, or more conservative side of the state, is relatively not impacted.
In another cleaving anecdote one business owner in southern California has told a rebel alliance member to discontinue the use of services from a vendor who does not share the leftist political perspectives of the owner; while other right-minded business owners (in the same industry) are looking specifically to gain advantage by seeking out vendors who are skilled, stable and independent.
As would be expected, the vaccination cleaving is creating two unique classes of workers and owners/operators. Those with the best expertise, skillset and work ethic all fall into the group who are more independently minded and not prone to the inherent peer pressure created by the vaccine mandate.
While the data is all still raw in this new cleaved socioeconomic environment, it does appear -in the aggregate- the unvaxxed are better workers, better problem solvers and carry a stronger work ethic. The vaxxed workforce, owners and operators appear less than.
This brings up an interesting dynamic that is still unfolding amid various regions. So the questions posed are these:
What do you see in your town, hamlet, city, neighborhood and/or region?
How are the various vaccine mandates impacting your area?
Additionally, what opportunities or challenges do you see currently? Do you see any benefits to the cleaving as it appears to be underway? Do you have any advice for readers who might be stuck behind enemy lines?
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on October 28, 2021 | Sundance | 214 Comments
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) has released the first estimate of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the third quarter (July, Aug, Sept). [DATA HERE] The top line number of two percent GDP growth is significantly worse than most economists and financial pundits expected.
The second quarter GDP was 6.7%, so a slow down to 2% is very significant considering the economy should be rebounding and reopening after the COVID-19 impacts. However, when we dig into the details [Table One] you will see how what is happening in your life is actually reflected in the data. None of this should be a surprise, as the data is simply reflecting what is happening in your personal checkbook economics.
First, here’s the media jaw agape, with false explanations and justifications:
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The drop has nothing to do with the ‘delta variant’, and everything -EVERYTHING- to do with inflation and impacts from Joe Biden’s economic policies.
Let’s take a look at the details, and you will see how the national GDP is simply a reflection on what we are doing to survive the Biden economy.
GDP growth is the measure of what is happening inside the U.S. economy. GDP reflects the value of goods and services produced in the U.S. minus the value of goods and services we import from outside the U.S.
Consumer spending represents two-thirds of our overall U.S. economy. When Americans stop buying stuff, our GDP drops.
A few things to remember about the value of goods and services. Inventories are an asset, increases in the inventories of goods we produce is a positive driver of GDP. Those inventories become sales, and those sales are also calculated in the value of goods we build, like houses. Considering how much housing values have increased; and considering how much more value that should add to the GDP overall; when the economy “decelerates”, as housing values increase, that tells you something is profoundly askew.
Consumer spending represents two-thirds of our overall GDP growth. Now take a look at the data in Table-1
Notice what is highlighted? Massive drops in consumer purchases of Goods (-9.2%), specifically in consumer spending for ‘Durable goods’ -26.2%
That statistic should not come as a surprise to those CTH readers who have followed along in the past few months. That statistic is simply a reflection of what we are doing. We are paying so much more for energy, gasoline, fuel, housing and food (all driven by inflation), that we are not spending on durable goods like cars, trucks, or long term appliances, electronics or other non-essential items.
-26.2% in one quarter is a massive contraction in the purchasing of durable goods. However, it should not be a surprise. Overall inflation increased 5.4% in the third quarter as measured within this first estimate analysis of GDP. However, inflation on food and gasoline was more than four to eight times higher, respectively, than overall inflation. As a result, disposable income has collapsed:
“Disposable personal income decreased $29.4 billion, or 0.7 percent, in the third quarter”, according to the top line first analysis. However, again this is a preliminary estimation and reflects a very skewed data point. With inflation on essential items running much higher than wage growth, the -0.7 percent first estimate for personal income is profoundly generous to the Biden administration. We can expect the second estimate in late November -with more complete details- to be a significant downward revision because disposable incomes have dropped much more than -0.7%.
Purchases for durable goods do not drop by 26% with only 0.7% drops in income. Look at your own checkbook economics. All of us blue-collar and working class folks are hunkering down and prioritizing food, fuel and home heating costs. We are not out buying new stuff.
Private residential sales are down 7.7% in the July, August, Sept, period according to the BEA data. Remember when CTH said at a macro level housing prices peaked in the last two weeks of May and first two weeks of June? There’s another supportive data-point.
Yes, there are regional impacts from relocation that are driving home values up in key regions like Florida and some suburban neighborhoods as people flee the crazy. However, overall home values have peaked, and only institutional investors (not families) are purchasing them now. Those institutional investors are buying property because they need tangible assets…. because their paper assets are extremely vulnerable. Vanguard and Blackrock purchasing houses gives them a tangible asset they can then leverage for pennies on the dollar for more low interest loans from the fed. Those houses are then turned into rental incomes feeding the mothership.
Lastly, exports should be a benefit to GDP, but as you can see in Table-1 exports are -2.5%, we are exporting less value in part because the value of our currency has dropped so dramatically.
The bottom line is this. The first estimate of Q3 GDP growth is merely a reflection of what you know is happening in your life and around your neighborhood. The next revision to this data (late November) will be lower than the first estimate because you can see the first estimate has not yet caught up to the current status as it existed in September.
The ivermectin controversy continues to unfold worldwide as many doctors prescribing the drug, successfully they might add, face growing scrutiny and even heavy-handed tactics leading to censorship and other repressive policies from governments and physician licensing boards. The latest news takes the TrialSite community to the shores of Lake Leman in French-speaking Switzerland. Apparently, doctors at Hospital Riviera-Chablais have been successfully treating patients here for COVID-19 since January 2021. According to physicians, 350 to 400 patients have been successfully treated, helping them to overcome COVID-19. But too much success broadcast on social media generates attention from elites in high places. As patients raved online of a great track record associated with ivermectin, the hospital’s Medical Committee undoubtedly was contacted by some powerful people—from within Switzerland and without. They summarily banned the use of ivermectin in this Swiss hospital, declaring that “only national and international recommendations concerning the treatment of COVID-19 should guide the management of COVID-19 cases,” reported Christophe Schull, Head of Communications.
As reported by local French-speakingL’Impertinent Media in Switzerland, a recent move by the hospital’s leadership, which includes all of its chief medical officers, evidences an outright purge of any early-onset COVID-19 care treatments not ordained by international and national standards.
An unprecedented almost international takeover of medicine itself, doctors are now subject to national and, even more disturbingly, international rules or standards promulgated by faceless bureaucrats—even politicians—all, of course, influenced by the deep pockets of industry.
While the executives that run this local hospital cite “current literature” that the drug “does not demonstrate any benefit” for the treatment of COVID-19, another point of view suggests these actions reflect a top-down, specialist-interest-driven, biased information war that now reaches from the highest international power structures down to the local practice of medicine.
TrialSite includes what is more of an objective, unbiased ivermectin fact sheet. In contrast, the Swiss HRC hospital leadership follows what bureaucrats at the World Health Organization or those at the national level in Switzerland declare. Doctors seemingly have little to no say anymore with their patients.
Use of ‘Experts’ to Trounce Doctor’s & Patient’s Rights
COVID-19 represents a convenient cover for what is, in fact, an unfolding geopolitical event, one that will permanently reset every facet of society. In this unprecedented takeover of the practice of medicine by a combination of supranational and subordinated national forces,a global reconfiguration of power, money and political influence usurp healthcare, the ultimate control over one’s very existence—the determination of life and death. Prominent academicians are employed to justify or validate what in some cases emerges as unconscionable moves, such as intervening between the care of a local doctor and consenting patient. Much like priests were used in medieval times to reinforce a draconian and, in reality, barbaric top-down order, esteemed medical professors and researchers now declare to the world what is safe to use versus what is taboo. Switzerland’s Professor Oriol Manuel, a CHUV professor, summarily decides on ivermectin’s fate for those doctors and patients at HRC—permanently interrupting the essential local physician and patient relationship.
Call to Action: For those in Switzerland who want to know who decided that they couldn’t receive ivermectin from their local doctor, the answer is Professor Oriol Manuel.
The gnomes of Snap Crackle, and Pop have new meaning in the 21st century, a far cry from their inception, but perhaps more momentous.
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By Tabitha Korol
Who could have imagined in 1933, when The Kellogg Company invented the advertising gnomes, SNAP, CRACKLE, and POP for its Rice Krispies cereal, that the words would be prescient for the early 21st century? Kellogg’s words merely evoked the sounds of the product’s bursting in milk, but today they could be applied to no less a calamity than the demise of Western culture.
SNAP – The sudden sound of a break
1933was our worst depression year. We had prohibition, bootlegging, speakeasies, and people travelling roads and rails in search of work, as in Steinbeck’s world Of Mice and Men. The 21st Amendment to our Constitution was ratified to return to the States the power to regulate the sales of alcohol and restore freedom of choice to the public. By 1938, Winston Churchill was calling upon the US to prepare for armed resistance against Adolph Hitler, although our majority preferred neutrality. We supported the British Commonwealth and officially entered the war in 1941, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In ‘42, the World War became official. Our citizens mobilized for the war effort, and we were a nation united in common cause. In the same year The Declaration of the United Nations was signed by 26 nations.
Our entry into WW II caused vast changes in every aspect of American life. Men and women joined our military services and labor force, and by war’s end, we were in better economic condition than any other country in the world. We became affluent, veterans were attending college on the GI Bill of Rights, and people were marrying and growing families. We were a strong, happy, powerful and culturally-unified country, overwhelmingly good and generous, with a center-right middle class that was proud to have helped win the war against the world’s evil despots. But, as author David Kupelian explained in his book, The Snapping of the American Mind, something happened.
By the time our troops returned home from fighting communism in Vietnam, they discovered that the enemy ideology was entrenched in our own society. The Marxists of the Frankfurt School were busy making the “long march through our institutions,” establishing their pernicious Critical Theory that has since spawned the Critical Race Theory. Our children were being taught to rebel against God, the Ten Commandments, the Constitution of the United States, and our Judeo-Christian principles, while also sanctioning murder, theft, adultery, sex outside of marriage, and the equity of social justice.
They penetrated our society through media, Hollywood, churches, and corporations, to destroy American exceptionalism, our history, progress, and universal moral values that unified us and made us great. Sixty-nine million Americans were driven to elect a black President Obama, despite his diehard Marxist goals, to prove we were not racist, and communism surreptitiously permeated the next generation. The lies and accusations used against President Trump were their way of demeaning him in the eyes of the public; the left had no agenda to otherwise woo the voters.
CRACKLE – Shatter, to become covered with a network of fine cracks
We have been cracking apart into conflicting tribes defined by skin color, sexuality, financial success, religion, fear, and envy. Half our population is deranged with a philosophy that has turned them against our laws, our civilization, how we identify ourselves, and in denial that we had formed for ourselves a great and welcoming nation. We now have a generation that has no regard for morals or virtue, for truth or our historical memory, for behavioral boundaries or, in fact, for the physical boundaries that define our nation’s sovereignty.
The ultimate goal of Communism is to build a society that owes allegiance to the State above all else – above the love of God and family. The goal will be achieved when people even forget that a demolition once occurred.
Our language is under attack because corrupt words produce corrupt thinking. Some words are outright banned; others redefined, suppressed, and replaced by inconceivable concepts and euphemisms for public acceptance. Our children are victims of leftist ideologists, immersed in bigotry and sexuality (Critical Race Theory), which are known to cause irreparable emotional damage while our government calls the dedicated parents “extremists,” and allows jihadis and criminals to enter and vanish.
People across the globe are driven to worry and submission to the regime. Gratitude has made way to demands for entitlements, tolerance for demands by the intolerant. Rights are demanded, responsibilities scorned. Freedom of speech has been quashed; racism and hate have become respectable. The fearful and foolish have allowed themselves to be hoodwinked, robbed of their faith and Constitution, and controlled by debilitating dread, depression, addictions and suicide.
Our people have been threatened and paralyzed by the fear of a viral illness created in Wuhan, China, with significant American collaboration and money. Young and old were intimidated into self-imprisonment; to wear masks that inhibited their necessary oxygen intake and communication; to accepting injections whose substances and metallic parasites were considered “trade secrets.” Although physicians and scientists declared Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) to be FDA-approved and perfectly safe as prophylaxis and cures, they were denounced and prohibited by the media, pharmacological corporations, and hospitals for reasons of financial profit. Those who resist the procedures are denounced, fired from their jobs, restricted from certain establishments, penalized, treated as pariahs – our modern-day lepers – and our formerly benign society becomes malignant.
POP – The sound of explosion, the flashpoint, zero hour. The components for us today:
The Wuhan virus and the pursuit of control through obligatory international “immunization.” The innocuous-sounding “gain of function,” which is nothing less than the biological research aimed at increasing the virulence and lethality of pathogens and viruses, and the suppression of adverse reaction reports. Students and the military being coerced to accept the vaccinations – “medical rape.”
Repeated lockdowns and restrictions that led to Illness and death, businesses closed and farming communities nearing extinction due to globalization and substantial welfare checks that discourage a returning workforce; political polarization; corporate farming with technology; financial struggles and alarming suicide rates, with the greatest increase being within the 15-24 age bracket, anonymous victims of the Wuhan virus.
Phasing out our fossil fuels has endangered our oil industry and sent gas prices through the roof. Biden wants trains to replace automobiles.
Overt destabilization of our economy and an increase in overall control by the elite for the purpose of permanently destroying our free and thriving capitalist republic for communist and Islamist tyranny.
A stolen electionand representation in government.
The individual’s dignity and rights guaranteed by the Ten Commandments and our Bill of Rights stolen.
Leftist propaganda turning minds of children away from family, morality and country, despite parental objection; a severe increase in crime. Schools to introduce pre-K classes for earlier child control.
Minds and bodies attacked as the schools encourage gender dysphoria, homosexuality – even transgenderism – again defying the parents.
de-Pop – depopulation, reduction or expulsion of inhabitants
Kellogg’s imps are, of course, coincidental, but the Kellogg Corporation, wittingly or not, is encouraging America’s destruction with its new spiritual warfare against our children. Their new cereal boxes are promoting and supporting LGBTQs, suggesting children create new pronouns, thereby underscoring the perversions of the leftist classrooms, the waning normalcy of their parents’ and grandparents’ generations, and actual physical harm to children’s privacy and bodies. The demands for these new human rights of requiring that people accept untruths for reality, lying about what we see, come at the expense of others’ human rights.
Consider how our world has been changing and Kellogg’s has entered into the arena, pandering to the woke communities, even at its own expense. Granted, slipping sales are seen in other packaged food companies as well, but it appears that the company is inflicting harm upon itself. By devaluing family life and emphasizing the deviations from our moral society, it is destroying our children, its biggest customer base. Kellogg’s joins the insanity of the globalists’ dream of depopulation.
(From PETA’s website: “To keep driving the message home, PETA supporters in giant blow-up dinosaur costumes have been following the president to various events carrying signs that read, ‘Biden: Don’t Appoint Another NIH Dinosaur.’”
PETA has finally spoken out against Dr. Fauci’s cruel experiments on beagle puppies. When the news was first released, the agency was banning anyone who tweeted them about Fauci, but now, PETA is calling upon the Biden Administration to fire all National Institute of Health heads. Although PETA certainly has their own extremist views on other topics, they are making valid points about how utterly unnecessary these very expensive tests have been.
PETA Vice President Kathy Guillermo appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show in 2019 and explained how 90% of studies on animals ultimately fail to produce viable medications for humans. Yet, half of NIH funding goes toward experiments on animals. She said that animals are cheap, universities and agencies receive large amounts of funding to carry out these “experiments,” and most of them are done in secrecy.
Newsmax directly asked Guillermo if she thought Fauci should resign, and without hesitation, she said, “Yes!” As a reminder, the Food and Drug Administration does not require animal testing to pass new drugs. PETA has raised the flag and called for NIH Francis Collins to resign for conducting similarly cruel experiments. Fauci’s experiments “amounted to lies,” and Guillermo is now calling on Americans to urge President Biden to remove Fauci from office.
Billions of taxpayer dollars are going toward these experiments that have not produced any significant improvements toward human life. PETA’s page to remove Collins notes, “Eighty-nine percent of preclinical experiments can’t even be reproduced—which is fundamental to good science—resulting in an annual waste of $28 billion.” An annual waste of $28 billion is beyond alarming. Fauci has moved on to testing drug concoctions on humans, and we need to wake up and realize that we have become the new sample group.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell was caught in a lie that may cost him re-election in 2022. The Federal Reserve Chairman, the man with the most insight into future US market policy, sold between $1 million and $5 million from his personal account on October 1, 2020. Not so coincidentally, the Dow decreased by around 6% that month before rebounding, and Wall Street saw its worst month since March 2020. Then, in September 2021, Powell ordered an ethics committee to investigate potential insider trading among central bank members, which he deemed necessary “because the trust of the American people is essential for the Federal Reserve to effectively carry out our important mission.”
However, when we look at these transactions, they do not appear to be inside trading. Had Powell sold ahead of the COVID Crash Jan-Feb 2020, then there would be a question of inside trading, but then again nobody bothers to investigate Bill Gates for his sales ahead of the COVID Crash he was cheering so much. After reviewing the trades, I would not raise any concerns. BTW, I was asked to review the Cattle trades of Hillary Clinton which were, in my opinion, a pay-off by putting the losses in one account at the REVCO and the wins into hers all when she was in a meeting and never traded futures before.
Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren had traded real estate investment trusts that owned the same mortgage-backed bonds that the central bank was purchasing. Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan earned over $1 million last year trading individual, COVID-sensitive equities such as Amazon, Chevron, and Delta Air Lines. Both men abruptly stepped down from their positions shortly after the information came to light. They declared innocence, with Rosengren citing an early retirement due to health reasons and Kaplan seeking to avoid conflict. “The Federal Reserve is approaching a critical point in our economic recovery as it deliberates the future path of monetary policy. Unfortunately, the recent focus on my financial disclosure risks becoming a distraction to the Federal Reserve’s execution of that vital work,” Kaplan stated at the end of September 2021.
Powell claimed he had no personal knowledge of any insider trader and suggested a revision to the Reserve Bank Code of Conduct. Meanwhile, records show that Powell called Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin multiple times on the same day he sold off his equities. Former President Trump met with Mnuchin that day and later tweeted: “Immediately after I win, we will pass a major stimulus bill.” The Dow, which was up 200 points in late-day trading, suddenly dropped 376 points after the tweet was published. Five days later, Powell was urging for additional stimulus and warned of “tragic” consequences. “The expansion is still far from complete … Too little support would lead to a weak recovery, creating unnecessary hardship,” Powell stated. Did he know what was to come in the following weeks?
Fed officials are not permitted to purchase or sell securities during “blackout periods,” which begin the second Saturday of the month before a Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting and end the following Thursday. Although Powell did not trade during this blackout period, his October 1 sell-off occurred before the Fed’s minutes report was released. “The problem is that the rules and the practices and the disclosure needs to be improved and that’s what we’re working on,” Chairman Powell stated. Are the rules the real problem here? Powell is allegedly worth between $20 million and $55 million. He and other Fed members have every motive to use their inside knowledge for profit. The people in charge of creating future monetary guidelines could alter policies to fit their trading strategies and line their pockets. Most were confident that Biden would reappoint Powell next year, but that option is off the table if he loses the “trust of the American people.”
Posted originally on the conservative house October 28, 2021 | Sundance | 37 Comments
In his lengthy opening on Fox News Wednesday night, Tucker Carlson outlined the big picture in 19 minutes. Carlson does a good job of weaving the disparate elements into a very visible picture.
This is a good encapsulation of how the Biden administration’s agenda creates a cause and effect cycle that’s completely disconnected from the priorities of the American middle class. WATCH:
It seems that the state of Florida is doing more to address the supply chain crisis than the entire Biden Administration. The American Trucking Association reported that their industry now has a record shortage of 80,000 drivers. Truck drivers are essential to maintaining a steady supply chain, and despite the climate change narrative, fewer trucks on the road mean that businesses cannot be supplied with the essentials they need. Distributors in Florida are now offering salaries of up to $110,000 a year with sign-on bonuses as high as $15,000. Even referral bonuses have been going for between $3,000 to $5,000. The plan to attract workers comes shortly after the state announced that their ports are open for business.
Nearly half of America’s small businesses are feeling the effects of the supply chain crisis. Ships have been forced to turn around from ports, rerouting back to Asia, as there have not been enough workers to transport products. The trucking industry has been warning that Biden’s policies would lead to disaster. “I’m pretty discouraged. I don’t know how anybody can think an anti-capitalist agenda can be good for transportation,” David Owen, president of the National Association of Small Trucking Companies (NASTC) told Transportation Nation Network (TNN) in January. The entire trucking industry has been hesitant since Biden stepped into office, and with good reason.
The Democrat-controlled House voted to raise the motor carriers’ liability insurance minimum requirement from $750,000 to $2 million, eliminating competition for larger trucking companies. Biden’s climate change agenda resulted in the Keystone Pipeline XL cancelation. His plans to reduce carbon emissions producers and fracking also resulted in higher prices at the pump. Ending the supply bottlenecks requires the US to put more trucks on the road, and truckers should be treated with dignity rather than criminals who are destroying the climate.
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